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INTERVENTION / FANTASMAGORÍA / INNOCENCE / POLAR HEIR / FAÇADE / The Sea I Dreamt
Sublimity and exploitation: on the relationship between humankind and nature
How much does the human species alter its habitat? That is photographer Han Sungpil’s central theme. His volume of photographs, Intervention, reveals a surprising perspective that moves beyond the visual language of ordinary environmental documentation. Monumental landscape photographs shift focus onto the exploitation of ecological resources. The three series in this book of photographs are distinguished by their surprising perspective, which goes beyond the visual vocabulary normally found in environmental documentations.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz (Germany, July 25 2017) / Introduction: Celina Lunsford / ISBN: 978-3775742795
Language: English / Hardcover: 176 pages / Product Dimensions: 30.7 x 2 x 23.4 cm
FANTASMAGORÍA- HAN SUNGPIL / Camera Work 30
The book mainly talks about urban rupture we’ve repeatedly encountered with in a great or small scale in the phenomenon of contemporary society. A series of representative works that unveil site specificity of Seoul and simultaneously covey the subject of city development from Façade and Memories and Traces were selected. It would be an exciting and thrilling experience as if one’s viewing the tide in the drama that the artist averts his eyes to the rear side of the city for this time while he’s been merely captured façade of buildings that implies out look of the city.
Publisher: The Museum of Photography, Seoul (July 16 2016) / Introduction: MOON Soyoung / ISBN: 978-89-93748-66-6 94660 / Language: English , Korean / Paperback: 100 pages / Product Dimensions: 24 x 22 cm
INNOCENCE – Han Sungpil
The tensions between the South and North, two Koreas isolated this area from Korea’s rapid postwar industrial development. As a result, it preserved DMZ’s , armed boarder, columnar jointing and other geographical features that were formed by lava even before humans appeared. They embody the sublimity of accumulated time – much longer than the history of tensions between the two Koreas.
Publisher: Yeoncheon County office, Korea (May 2016) / Introduction: Chin Jungkwon / Language : English, Korean / Hardcover: 70 pages
Han Sungpil’s polar photography is a stroke of Memento Mori and polar uncanny. The photographic representation of human traces buried in snow and ice saturates its appreciator with a similar emotion. In the mind of the Polar Regions, there exists a photographic memory of triple exposure, the superposition of its white, red and black histories. The land and waters of purely the most extreme natural sublimity, according to an ordinary imagination, have actually been running on a two-track time: a track of Mother Nature, and that of her most audacious children.
Publisher: Taekwang, Seoul, Korea (Jan 5th, 2015) / ISBN: 978-89-965734-1-8 (93660)) / Introduction by Chin Chungkwon & Yesun Choi / Translation: Ahn Jae Woo/ Language: English & Korean / Hardcover: 100 pages / Size : 30 x 24.8 x 2.5cm
FAÇADE – HAN SUNGPIL
The Façade series, conceptual photography, is strange, eye-deceiving buildings with large format camera all over the world. As the title Facade suggests, represented “Trompe-l’oeil” painted on the wall of buildings or scaffolding are mingled with real scenery around them, and they lose the boundary between real and unreal. Those facades – appearing suddenly in the urbanscaped in our contemporary era- may be a gate to the ideal world which people desire to experience the ideal in this real world.
Publisher: Foil Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) / First Edition edition (Jun 01 2011) / ISBN: 978-4-902943-65-8 / Language: English / Paperback: 84 page / Size: 28 x 28cm x 1cm
The Sea I Dreamt – HAN SUNGPIL
Publisher: HAN’S Graphic (Seoul, Korea) / First Edition edition (2005) / Language: English / Introduction by Celina Lunsford $ Becky Beasley / Size: 19.4 x 30.3cm x 1cm / Oblong Hardcover / Leporello Style Binding